Both Lewis'sĬlassical source material and his book The Four Loves suggest a moreĬomplicated interpretation of the gods in the story. Identifications between pagan and Christian deities. Of Lewis's contemporaneous nonfiction tends rather to undercut easy Yet, while the novel does suggest a few parallelsīetween the Shadowbrute and Christ, a careful reading of the novel and

God in some way, just as Aslan and the Emperor over the Sea do in theĬhronicles of Narnia. Novel, Ungit and her son the Shadowbrute, must represent the Christian According to conventional readings, the deities in the That has not, however, preventedĬritics from alternately reading simplistic typology into the story andĬomplaining that the Christian typology they attribute to the novel is Typology is obvious, Till We Have Faces offers a strange mixture of Lewis's Narnia books or his Ransom trilogy, in which the spiritualĭrama occurs mostly in secondary worlds where Lewis's Christian Readers toward the novel's mythic undercurrent. Indeed, the novel's subtitle, A Myth Retold, unsubtly nudges Historical novel about the royal family of a small kingdom on theĭistant margins of the Hellenistic world lies a mysterious story thatĪstute readers soon come to recognize as the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Is its ambiguity: underneath what at first appears to be a realistic, Unfortunately, did not agree, and the book has languished in the shadows

Lewis published Till We Have Faces in 1959, heĬonsidered it the best piece of fiction he had ever written.

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